Thursday, January 6, 2011

Net Nuetraility

This is an issue that is hard to wrap your mind around. But Obama thought enough of it to campaign in favor of it and allowing that he would absolutely protect this through any Obama administration. He did not.

By my understanding Net Nuetrality means that all information from all sights moves equally through the internet. Verizon amongst other major characters had lobbied for the right to allow certain internet sites to transmit their info faster.

The issue here is of course that will allow another form of profit by selling these premium networking capabilities. The danger is that again, smaller sites with less money will have less money to equal the marketplace.

Capitalism rules and I guess it is fair in a capitalistic world. We had no reason to think the Internet would be any different. We did have hope that Obama would mean what he said. He did not.

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